On Thursday, February 3rd, The Fellowship Foundation (a.k.a., "The Family") is holding their annual National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton near Dupont Circle in DC. For those of you unfamiliar, The Family is the secret, shady, conservative "Christian" organization behind Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill. The prayer breakfast is attended by around 3,500 people from all over the world, including many Members of Congress and often the President of the United States. In fact, every President since Eisenhower has participated in the breakfast.
In response to this event, activists (including myself, people from GetEQUAL DC, various religious organizations, and the ACLU, to name a few) have planned the Breakfast Without Bigotry, a protest taking place on the sidewalks outside of the Washington Hilton at the same time as the National Prayer Breakfast (Thursday, February 3rd, from 6:00 - 8:00 a.m.). I will be posting more details as they become available, but that should be everything you need to know in order to mark your calendars now and plan to attend!
It would be awesome if there were a huge, boisterous turnout at the Breakfast Without Bigotry, to educate the people attending the prayer breakfast about The Family and their violent agenda of persecuting LGBTQ individuals, and to let The Family know that we are watching them, we know what they're up to, and we will not stand silently by while our LGBTQ family is persecuted, imprisoned, and put to death in Uganda or anywhere else in the world.
Silence = Death, and we should be making a ruckus!
No comments:
Post a Comment